Johann Heinrich Eberts
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Jakob Emanuel Handmann , portrait of Johann Heinrich Eberts (1759).
Johann Heinrich Eberts (* 1726 ; † 1793 ) was a Strasbourg banker , art dealer and engraver.
Johann Heinrich Eberts was a banker who traded in art and who himself dabbled as a copper engraver . He was friends with Johann Georg Wille in Paris. The Reichsstädtische Kunstakademie in Augsburg appointed him associé honoraire .
Eberts had himself portrayed by Jakob Emanuel Handmann in Bern in 1759 . In the background of the picture there are three graphics hanging on the wall: Tricoteuse Hollandoise by Johann Georg Wille after Frans van Mieris , Le pucelage by Eberts after a drawing by Willes and Jeanette after François Boucher , also engraved by Eberts. Wille and Eberts dedicated the first two sheets to each other.
literature
- E. Dacier: Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français 1950, pp. 167-176.
- Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon , Vol. 4, Munich 1837, p. 65 online
- Philippe Kaenel and Rolf Reichardt: The European Print and cultural transfer in the 18th and 19th centuries , Hildesheim 2007, pp. 119–144.
- Manuel Kehrli: Portrait of a gentleman in an elegant interior. Emanuel Handmann's portrait of a "homme de lettres" from 1759 in the Bernisches Historisches Museum , in: Der Kleine Bund No. 146 (2000), p. 3. online (PDF; 296 kB)
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Eberts, Johann Heinrich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eberts, Jean Henri |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Banker, art dealer and engraver |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1726 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1793 |